How Can We Love Our Neighbor if We Don’t Love Ourselves

Love your neighbor as you do yourself. How’s your self love, is there enough to work with. Many people don’t love themselves, possibly due to a bad experience in life they are blaming themselves for. Guilt and or insecurity can stop us from loving ourselves. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh (Romans 8:1), (your emotions or bad intentions should not rule you). The command here is to love your neighbor as yourself. This is indicative of you caring for them and having concern for them as you do for yourself. Imagine if everyone did this, the world would be a much better place. The love of God has been shed aboard in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). It is in seed form lying dormant in our hearts once we get saved. This love along with all the fruit of the Spirit must be developed. If you don’t know how to love yourself, start to develop the fruit of the spirit in your life. By walking in Love, joy, peace, patience, meekness, goodness, kindness, and self-control, we begin to understand that, yielding yourself to these godly attributes will bring awareness of self-worth. You will begin to love your neighbor as yourself.